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And finally this hour, we celebrate the 110th winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Alice Munro. She is the 13th woman to win the award. The Canadian writer was hailed by the Swedish academy as a master of the contemporary short story. Over her career, Munro has written 14 story collections and one novel. As NPR's Neda Ulaby reports, Munro began writing as a child in rural Western Ontario, raised in a family of tough Scottish Presbyterians.
NEDA ULABY, BYLINE: So much of Alice Munro's work is autobiographical, like the short story that begins when a little girl is given some terrible news by her aunt.
ALICE MUNRO: (Reading) Your mother has had a little stroke. She says not, but I've seen too many like her. She's had a little one and she might have another little one and another and another. And someday she might have the big one.
ULABY: That's Alice Munro reading her story "The Ottawa Valley" on the CBC - the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - in 1978. The aunt in the story then proceeds to comfort the little girl, if that's what you want to call it, with a story of her own.
MUNRO: (Reading) My mother took sick when I was only 10. She died when I was 15. In between, what a time I had with her. She was all swollen up. What she had was dropsy. They came one time and took it out of her by the pailful. Took quite out, fluid.
ULABY: Alice Munroe hates it when her stories are described as bleak. She told WHYY's FRESH AIR in 1996 that she finds a range of emotions even in sicknesses or betrayals.
MUNRO: Anything that surprises me, that makes me see anything differently, anything that gives me a gift is entertaining.
WAYSON CHOY: She startles me when I read her.
ULABY: That's fellow Canadian and novelist Wayson Choy.
CHOY: Because I think I'm settling in for a quiet story that will be well told, and then I'm realizing that there's a storm of emotion rising in the background.
ULABY: Alice Munro's first short story was published when she was 37. She was a college dropout squeezing in writing time around her children's naps. By the time she was in her 60s - and she's now 82 - she'd become one of the most celebrated short story writers in the world. But as a woman of her generation and modest background, she felt conflicted about taking time to work.
MUNRO: There tends not to be the feeling that this is what you deserve. I still find it hard to think that I deserve that time to this day. I can be made to feel guilty if a friend phones just to chat, also just about all the things that I could be doing to be a better homemaker as I was trained to be.
ULABY: Guilt and other submerged feelings simmer through a movie based on one of Munro's short stories. "Away from Her" came out in 2006. It starred Julie Christie as a woman in a home for people with Alzheimer's. When her husband of many years comes to visit, she doesn't recognize him. She thinks he's a new patient.
JULIE CHRISTIE: (as Fiona Anderson) If you ask that grim-looking lady over there nicely, she'll get you a cup of tea.
GORDON PINSENT: (as Grant Anderson) I'm fine.
CHRISTIE: (as Fiona Anderson) I can leave you then? You can entertain yourself. Must all seem strange to you. But you'll be surprised how soon you get used to it.
ULABY: Then she introduces her husband to her new nursing home boyfriend. The film was directed and written by Sarah Polley. She told FRESH AIR she was drawn to Munro's exploration of unconditional love.
SARAH POLLEY: He has not always been a saintly husband that, you know, there have been wounds that he's perpetrated in the past and affairs that he's had. And that there's this strange, almost poetic justice that he perceives in her forgetting him and seemingly falling in love with another man in front of his eyes.
ULABY: Alice Munro, so adroit in expressing complex emotions, was at a rare loss for words when a CBC interviewer asked her this morning what it meant to win the Nobel Prize in literature.
MUNRO: It just seems impossible. I can't describe it. It's more than I can say.
ULABY: Munro said she hopes her win will increase respect for short stories. Only a few months ago, Alice Munro announced plans to retire. Now thanks to the Nobel, she says she just might reconsider. Neda Ulaby, NPR News.
You're listening to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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ANAHEIM, CA, JANUARY 19, 2011 — Aviom, the exclusive developer of the world's most powerful audio transport protocol, A-Net®, is pleased to announce the appointment of Studiotec as the company's new distributor in Finland, beginning January 2011.
Celebrating its 30th year in business, Studiotec is the leading importer of audio, video and lighting equipment in Finland. "We are so excited to introduce our customers to the personal mixing and high-fidelity digital audio networking solutions Aviom has to offer," says Peter Stråhlman, Studiotec's managing director. "Aviom systems are not only modular and scalable, but they're also ideal for a broad range of portable and fixed installation applications, helping us to serve customers in new, innovative ways we're sure they'll appreciate."
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Documentation and tools.
Real Documentation exists. Online and in print. The reading of several of these is required to make the step from small time DNS admin to a big time one.
I have written The Concise Guide to DNS and BIND (by Nicolai Langfeldt, me), published by Que (ISBN 0-7897-2273-9). The book is much like this HOWTO, just more details, and a lot more of everything. It has also been translated to Polish and published as DNS i BIND by Helion ( http://helion.pl/ksiazki/dnsbin.htm, ISBN 83-7197-446-9). Now in 4th edition is DNS and BIND by Cricket Liu and P. Albitz from O'Reilly & Associates (ISBN 0-937175-82-X, affectionately known as the Cricket book). Another book is Linux DNS Server Administration, by Craig Hunt, published by Sybex (ISBN 0782127363), I have not read it yet. Another must for good DNS administration (or good anything for that matter) is Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig.
Online you will find my book, along with tons of other books, available electronically as a subscription service at http://safari.informit.com/. There is stuff on http://www.dns.net/dnsrd/ (DNS Resources Directory), http://www.isc.org/bind.html; A FAQ, a reference manual (the ARM should be enclosed in the BIND distribution as well) as well as papers and protocol definitions and DNS hacks (these, and most, if not all, of the RFCs mentioned below, are also contained in the BIND distribution). I have not read most of these. The newsgroup news:comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains is about DNS. In addition there are a number of RFCs about DNS, the most important are probably the ones listed here. Those that have BCP (Best Current Practice) numbers are highly recommended.
P. Vixie, Extension Mechanisms for DNS (EDNS0) August 1999.
BCP 20, H. Eidnes et. al. Classless IN-ADDR.ARPA delegation, March 1998. This is about CIDR, or classless subnet reverse lookups.
M. Andrews, Negative Caching of DNS Queries, March 1998. About negative caching and the $TTL zone file directive.
BCP 17, M. Hamilton and R. Wright, Use of DNS Aliases for Network Services, October 1997. About CNAME usage.
BCP 16, R. Elz et. al., Selection and Operation of Secondary DNS Servers, July 1997.
A. Gulbrandsen, P. Vixie, A DNS RR for specifying the location of services (DNS SRV), October 1996
Y. Rekhter, R. Moskowitz, D. Karrenberg, G. de Groot, E. Lear, Address Allocation for Private Internets, 02/29/1996.
D. Barr, Common DNS Operational and Configuration Errors, 02/28/1996.
B. Barr Errors in RFC 1912. Only available at http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~barr/rfc1912-errors.html
A. Romao, Tools for DNS debugging, 11/03/1994.
C. Farrell, M. Schulze, S. Pleitner, D. Baldoni, DNS Encoding of Geographical Location, 11/01/1994.
R. Ullmann, P. Mockapetris, L. Mamakos, C. Everhart, New DNS RR Definitions, 10/08/1990.
P. Mockapetris, Domain names - implementation and specification, 11/01/1987.
P. Mockapetris, Domain names - concepts and facilities, 11/01/1987.
M. Lottor, Domain administrators operations guide, 11/01/1987.
M. Stahl, Domain administrators guide, 11/01/1987.
C. Partridge, Mail routing and the domain system, 01/01/1986.


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Cigarette manufacturers currently make roughly double the profits of most other companies. The creation of an 'Ofsmoke' agency to regulate the industry would increase tax revenue and protect public health, according to the article published in the journal Tobacco Control.
Professor Anna Gilmore, from the University's Department for Health and the UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies; Dr Robert Branston, from the School of Management; and Professor David Sweanor from the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Law, say that capping the pre-tax cigarette manufacturers' price would safeguard society from the market failure behind manufacturers' pricing power and profits.
Regulation would set a maximum price that cigarette companies could charge for their product, based on an assessment of genuine operational costs. Retail mark-up would not be affected, or the price that consumers pay, but the excess profit currently accrued by cigarette manufacturers would be transferred to the national treasury through increased tax.
The system would be set up at no cost to the consumer or taxpayer, funded instead through a levy or licence fee paid by tobacco companies.
Dr Robert Branston, Deputy Director of the University's Centre for Governance & Regulation, said: "A handful of companies dominate the market and cream off massive profits. With such a deadly product, competition isn't attractive, so we've identified regulation as an alternative that stands to benefit both government and public health.
"The market has failed to curb cigarette manufacturers in terms of pricing power and profit, and tobacco control policies have unintentionally exacerbated the problem.
"Clamping down on the extreme profitability of cigarettes would reduce the incentive for tobacco companies to fight public health measures and mean they have fewer funds at their disposal.
"A move to regulation would enable tobacco control policies to be expanded as companies would be partially insulated against impact on revenue and less able to argue against them."
He went on to say that regulation would also be a way of preventing people from down-trading to cheaper products and restraining the behaviour of companies when it comes to cigarette smuggling and marketing to young people.
"The tobacco industry is likely to argue that this type of direct economic regulation is an extreme reaction, but it's hard to argue that nothing should be done given the extent of market power that these firms are enjoying and the number of deaths the sector causes," said Dr Branston.
The paper is based on the UK but researchers are confident that the system could be applied to most markets.
They are planning further research to quantify the tax benefits of regulation and its affect on tobacco manufacturers.


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Google pumps cash into UK classrooms, will buy Arduino, Raspberry Pi sets for kids
Eric Schmidt has said that Google will make cash available through its investment into Teach First to buy Raspberry Pi and Arduino units for British schoolchildren. He was at the UK's Science Museum to talk about Mountain View's partnership with the charity, which puts top university graduates into schools to teach disadvantaged kids. The Android-maker wrote a cheque to fund over 100 places on the scheme, aiming to get bright computer scientists to reintroduce engineering principles to pupils. Mr. Schmidt hoped that with the right support, kits like the Raspberry Pi would do for this generation what the BBC Micro did three decades ago.


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A catalog for the north and south Galactic caps
(811,117 sources), derived from the
1993 through 2002 observations, is
currently available as a gzip-compressed ASCII file
The file size is 26.6 Mbytes compressed (87.6 Mbytes uncompressed).
The catalog covers a total of about 9033 square degrees of sky (8422
square degrees in the north Galactic cap and 611 square degrees
in the south Galactic cap.)
See the coverage maps for more details of the area covered. Both the northern and southern areas were chosen to concide the area planned to be covered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. No new sky area was covered in the south Galactic cap during the past observing season, although the southern equatorial strip was reobserved. The results of the repeated observations will be released separately; the current catalog is identical to the previous catalog in the south.
The catalog is on-line and can be searched using the FIRST Search Engine. However, for large-scale investigations it will be necessary to obtain the complete catalog. This document describes the catalog format.
The catalog is sorted by right ascension and has the following format:
RA (2000) Dec W Fpeak Fint Rms Maj Min PA fMaj fMin fPA Field Name 06 50 44.043 +31 10 00.09 1.16 0.64 0.147 0.00 0.00 42.0 4.50 3.59 42.0 06510+31143E 06 51 02.181 +31 11 13.33 1.58 2.66 0.139 4.99 3.94 91.6 7.35 6.69 91.6 06510+31143E 06 51 03.826 +31 13 03.32 W 1.02 1.42 0.137 7.63 0.00 2.4 9.35 4.34 2.4 06510+31143E 06 51 06.134 +31 19 02.00 7.29 9.64 0.145 4.09 1.82 131.3 6.77 5.70 131.3 06510+31143E 06 51 10.784 +31 11 28.80 72.36 100.79 0.141 4.18 2.49 9.8 6.83 5.95 9.8 06510+31143ENote that this format is the same as in all versions of the catalog released since 1997; older versions have a different format.
unc(90% confidence) = Size (1/SNR + 1/20) arcsecwhere Size is either the major or minor axis fitted FWHM (fMaj or fMin) as given in the catalog and SNR is the peak flux density signal-to-noise ratio:
SNR = (Fpeak-0.25) / Rms(The positional uncertainty is of course elliptical for elliptical sources.) The best possible positional uncertainty is limited to about 0.1 arcsec by our ability to fit source positions in maps with 1.8 arcsec pixels and by various random calibration uncertainties. Systematic errors in the positions are smaller than 0.05 arcsec.
IMPORTANT NOTE: The sidelobe flagging near and south of the equator is not as reliable as in the north because the sidelobe characteristics change with the zenith angle of the observation. We are working on improvements to the sidelobe-flagging, but for now it is important to be cautious in studies of individual southern sources. We recommend checking the images using the FIRST Cutout Server if there is any doubt about the reality of particular sources (in either the north or the south.) This is easily done when using the FIRST Search Engine to search the catalog, since each source selected in the search has a link to the Cutout Server.
The uncertainty in Fpeak is given by the rms noise at the source position, while the uncertainty in Fint can be considerably greater depending on the source size and morphology. For bright sources the accuracies of Fpeak and Fint are limited to about 5% by systematic effects. Note that for sources that are not well-described by an elliptical Gaussian model, Fint is not an accurate measure of the integrated flux density.
FITS images giving the rms noise as a function of position on the sky are available for the northern and the southern areas. These images give the rms in mJy/beam tabulated on a ~3 arcmin grid in RA and Declination. If there is no source in the catalog at a given position, the source peak flux density (before CLEAN bias correction) is less than 5 times the coverage map rms value at that position. The sky area covered is displayed in the images below (which are linked to postscript versions of the images):
Noise can cause the fitted values of the major and minor axes (before deconvolution) to be smaller than the beam. The corresponding deconvolved size is given as zero in those cases.
The uncertainties in the deconvolved sizes depend on both the brightness and the sizes. Objects at the catalog flux density limit have uncertainties of about 2 arcsec in their sizes (so faint objects with Maj < 2 arcsec are consistent with point sources.) An simple empirical estimate of the uncertainty is
Sigma(Size) = 10 arcsec (1/SNR + 1/75)where SNR is the signal-to-noise ratio defined above.
is centered at RA=hh mm.m
Dec=+dd mm.m
. The images
are available from several archives and
through the FIRST
Cutout Server.
All field names in the current catalog end with a letter E through J, depending on the date of the last catalog release in which the image was modified. The J fields are new in this catalog, while sources extracted from the E/F/G/H/I fields are nearly identical to those in the previous version of the catalog.
The catalog history page describes previously released versions of the FIRST catalogs, which are still available for historical purposes. We recommend that the new catalog be used where possible for all projects.


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The bill gives an opportunity to every Russian citizen to obtain one hectare of land in the Far East for free use for the first five years and then acquire ownership of their land allotments at no cost if the plot has been used for activities not banned by Russian laws Picture: Natalia Korneva
The land handout is a radical scheme from the Russian government to reverse a potentially catastrophic population decline on the Pacific rim in the extreme east of the country.
People will be able to register and receive plots on the web. The offer includes land that can be farmed, and forested territory, with the potential to sell timber, or simply set up home and a smallholding.
Those wanting to becoming landowners in the Far East should use their plot for five years after which it can become theirs for free. Later, they could sell it.
About 30 million Russians - especially the young - are ready to go east and take up the offer, according to the VTSIOM public opinion research centre as a public discussion on the plan kicked off. Such a shift would be on a scale of historical proportions, transforming the region.
'Free land grants is a powerful potential for developing our Eastern territories and an opportunity to radically - almost six fold - increase the far eastern population from 6.4 million to 36 million people,' said Alexander Galushka, minister responsible for development of these regions.
Some 28% said they wanted to organise individual self-reliance households on their land; 19% said they would like to become farmers while 16% said that the land grants was an opportunity for them to change their place of residence, said the press service of the Ministry for Far Eastern Development.
Russian settlers on the Far East in the beginning of the 20th century. Picture: Okhota i Rybalka, RussianKoreanTV
The bill gives an opportunity to every Russian citizen to obtain one hectare of land in the Far East for free use for the first five years and then acquire ownership of their land allotments at no cost if the plot has been used for activities not banned by Russian laws, reported TASS.
The land will be confiscated in case of non-use. Foreigners will have no right to get the free land.
'If the requested plot of land is part of the designated forest land, this cannot be a cause for refusal to provide the plot of land in accordance with the provisions of this law,' states an official government document on the land handout.
The exception are lands designated 'protected forests'. The scheme may appeal to patriotic Russians seeking to rebuild their own lives and improve their country at the same time.
Yet there are sceptics who recall a giveaway of share vouchers during the privatisation of old Soviet industries in the 1990s. The shares quickly found their way into the hands of a few spectacularly rich tycoons.
Some fear that oligarchs will do the same here, and then deftly switch the land into the hands of the Chinese who are keen to hold agricultural property long term, to supply their country's food needs.
There are already murmurs of dissent about deals in several regions to put land into Chinese hands.
As one sceptical blogger forecast gloomily: 'It is yet another fraud by our bureaucrats. These pieces of land will be given to unknown people and then the land will be sold (sorry, given for rent for 100 years) to Chinese people.'
The plots of land will be no closer than 20 kilometres to settlements with 300,000 or more residents; and no closer than 10 kilometres to towns with 50,000 to 300,000 residents. Pictures: Arsenyev.net, The Siberian Times
Another warned: 'It is just like that vouchers story in 1990s, at the end of which a couple of oligarchs will get hold of it and we'll see 2-3 more agricultural oligarchs, who will hire Chinese people to work there.'
Natural Russian pessimism?
Time will tell, assuming the plan is approved, but potential incomers will need to be doggedly determined as were settlers to Siberia and the Far East during periods in the past.
The plots of land will be no closer than 20 kilometres to settlements with 300,000 or more residents; and no closer than 10 kilometres to towns with 50,000 to 300,000 residents.
Another blogger warned potential land grabbers to beware of 'high Far East prices, a different climate, thousands of mosquitos and other insects you have never seen before'.
If the law secures final approval in Moscow, the programme will start working on 1 January 2016 and run for 19 years.


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- Handcrafted cane handles wrapped with cotton cord.
Handcrafted and Unique
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Product Care
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Kauna reed is a perennial grass-like plant that grows all around the world at different temperatures and can grow as tall as 10 feet in shallow water or on marshy land. The plant is naturally resistant to insects. We at ZIVELI work with women in Manipur, to craft our trendy weaved bag.
How this Bag is Made
Artisans cut the Kauna Reed when the plant grows to about 3-4 feet and sun dries the reed. They moisten the reed again to increase flexibility during hand weaving of Bags & Baskets. The tools used in the weaving process are very simple. The artisans need a regular needle for stitching and of course a sharp pair of scissors or pliers for cutting purposes.
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Celebrity Christmas Cards
With Christmas just one week away, there's so much to prepare beforehand! One thing that everyone seems to send out early are Christmas cards. The often-formal, posed photos that say "Happy Holidays From Us!" that family and friends like to send out earlier in the month. Celebrities are no exception, handing out photos of them with their nearest and dearest along with a cute message in the spirit of the holidays. From Britney Spears to the Kardashians to the Beckhams, here are Christmas cards straight from the celebrities themselves!
Which celebrity would you be stoked to receive a Christmas card from?


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Washington (CNN) -- Materials taken from Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan confirm that the al Qaeda leader communicated with the Yemen-based group al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, according to a U.S. official familiar with the ongoing U.S. analysis of the documents.
It is not clear whether that group ever received the communications or if it acted upon them, said the official, who could not be named due to the sensitivity of the intelligence information.
The United States is still trying to determine if the leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, American-born Yemeni cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, was in direct communication with bin Laden. Washington considers the Yemen-based group a very active wing of al Qaeda. Several attempted bombing plots targeting the United States -- including the unsuccessful Times Square bombing of 2010 and the attempt to blow up courier planes with explosives hidden in printer cartridges -- were hatched in Yemen.
The search through bin Laden's materials, which were recovered after the al Qaeda leader was killed in a May 2 raid on his compound by U.S. Navy SEALs, has also found direct evidence that while in hiding in Pakistan, bin Laden was involved in planning attacks. The materials confirmed that bin Laden was encouraging direct plots to attack Americans and U.S. interests in Europe late last year, according to the U.S. official.
The source emphasized there were several threats at the time that led the United States to issue an October 2010 alert for Americans traveling in Europe.
Bin Laden was "aware, supportive and trying to motivate his operatives in Europe. He was pushing them," the source said.
What's next after bin Laden's death?
The U.S. intelligence community had classified information at the time suggesting that bin Laden was involved, the U.S. official said, but the documents taken from the compound have provided confirmation. Officials have previously said bin Laden always placed a top priority on trying to attack Americans.
While officials are still trying to assess overall how effective bin Laden was in communicating with his operatives in Pakistan and abroad, the threats that emerged late last year came from "al Qaeda Central," the source said, using the phrase that refers to bin Laden and his direct associates.
"Absolutely, he knew" about the plotting to attack in Europe, the official said. "Osama bin Laden was in the loop."


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Last Thursday, the DePaul Art Museum unveiled its environmentally-conscious exhibition, "Climate of Uncertainty", a glorious coincidence for the unseasonably warm opening gallery weekend in Chicago. At 56 degrees in the middle of January, global warming was responsible for two major components of Friday's bustling openings: endless chattering about the temperature outside, and crowds that rivaled the masses of the September season openers.
"I had planned these exhibitions for blizzard conditions," explained dealer Aron Packer of the West Loop's Packer Schopf Gallery, as I elbowed my way through the crowd. Andrea Stanislav's excessive sculptures full of rhinestones, glitter and taxidermied animals filled Packer's 3,000 square-foot space along with three other exhibitions by Lauren Levato, Bruce Riley, and Deborah Baker. At a time of the year when Chicago galleries typically have to fight for foot-traffic, the overcompensation plus the anomalous weather equalled an overwhelming turnout for everyone.
William Lieberman of Zolla/Lieberman Gallery was likely of the same mind when he scheduled two of his big-guns, Vera Klement and William Conger, in his cavernous River North space. With two established artists with such selling power and local clout, it was basically a guarantee that collectors and prominent Chicago artists would be in attendance. Amidst the crowd were famed collectors of Midwest art, Anne and Mark Seibert; and rising artists like Michael Rea, who was probably not the only young artist fondly recounting his time at Northwestern studying with Conger, a living legend of old-school abstraction.
The 14 other exhibition receptions in River North kept the momentum going, while the West Loop was slower with only a handful of openings. The non-profit Chicago Artists' Coalition used to struggle with programming of notably uneven quality, but a revamp of the organization resulted in vast improvement throughout 2012, and they've hit a high note with this exhibition, "Exchange: Chicago-Detroit." "For a show of non-local artists, this was a tremendous turnout," said Director of Exhibitions, Cortney Lederer. One particularly prominent artwork, Graem White's modified ping-pong table, "Venue for Advanced Conflict Resolution (Battle of the Gods)", had gallery-goers sending ping-pong balls flying everywhere. It created a fun vibe. Toeing the fine line of ruin porn are strong photos by Scott Hocking, documenting the artist's site-specific installations in the urban landscape; work that has made him the face of post-industrial Detroit.
Perhaps those benefitting the most from the advantageous weather were the galleries stationed outside of the art districts, where visitors might not normally be inclined to venture during Chicago's typically frigid winters. Thomas Masters Gallery opened "Drips + Grids" by Melody Saraniti, an exhibition of abstract paintings taking on these Expressionist tropes with the artist's signature calculated mark-making. After a massive fire leveled the building that contained her studio and the studios of several other Chicago artists, Kate Ruggeri produced a full solo exhibition at Ebersmoore Gallery; a collection of gestural works on paper accompany a faceless, life-sized figure whose spindly form is wrapped with various cast-off fabrics covered with neon green paint. The Mission, known for being one of the only spaces dedicated to bringing contemporary art from abroad to Chicago, impressed with Dutch artist Jeroen Nelemans' re-imaginings of Dutch landscape and heritage using fluorescent bulbs, light boxes and inkjet prints.
After 5 ½ hours of gallery hopping, I wound up at Johalla Projects, located in the Hubbard Street Lofts building far off the beaten path in a still industrial part of town. Kindly keeping open hours long past the scheduled 10 pm, Johalla was the last stop for most as the galleries in the other districts closed for the night. Peering over the shoulders of the crowd, one could just glimpse a clearly exhausted woman moving gracefully in front of a projection screen flanked by a pair of young men manning a drum kit and a table full of machines. Out in the hall, spectators wondered aloud, "What is this? What's she doing?" when someone piped up, "She's doing a weather forecast." It seemed perfectly fitting.


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"For his public service and major contributions in the field of risk analysis and its application leading to increased public understanding of issues at the interface of physics and society."
Background:M. Granger Morgan is Professor and Head of the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University where he is also University and Lord Chair Professor in Engineering. In addition, he holds academic appointments in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and in the H. John Heinz III College. His research addresses problems in science, technology and public policy with a particular focus on energy, environmental systems, climate change and risk analysis. Much of his work has involved the development and demonstration of methods to characterize and treat uncertainty in quantitative policy analysis. At Carnegie Mellon, Morgan directs the NSF Center for Climate and Energy Decision and with Lester Lave co-directs the Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center. Morgan chairs the Scientific and Technical Council for the International Risk Governance Council. He is a Member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the AAAS, the IEEE, and
the Society for Risk Analysis. He holds a BA from Harvard College (1963) where he concentrated in Physics, an MS in Astronomy and Space Science from Cornell (1965) and a Ph.D. from the Department of Applied Physics and Information Sciences at the University of California at San Diego (1969).
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(TOKYO, JAPAN) Here I sit at the Park Hyatt, Tokyo (the Lost in Translation hotel) watching the morning sun hit Mt Fuji, and watching the headlines and emails about the FAA's grounding of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner spew forth from my laptop.
As you may know from previous posts, I flew to Tokyo last Saturday aboard one of the first Dreamliner flights to depart San Jose International airport. While there were operational issues with the aircraft at that time, passengers I spoke with felt confident about flying the brand new 158-passenger bird across the Pacific. Our 10-hour flight to Tokyo was delightful and without incident.
I was traveling with a group of travel media, and during our interviews with ANA executives on Tuesday, we were assured that these were "teething issues" that fell within the band of normalcy for any new aircraft. They were still very excited about the aircraft with plans to buy several more.
While new at San Jose, ANA has been flying the 787 for a year and a half, with rave reviews from passengers, pilots and the media in general. We had heard US Transportation secretary Ray LaHood state a few days earlier that he'd feel confident flying on a 787.
Then, on Wednesday morning here in Tokyo, we heard that a Dreamliner had made an emergency landing at an airport in western Japan, and that all passengers had been evacuated. Apparently, an indicator light told pilots that there was a battery issue, and that there was an unusual odor in the cockpit. After that incident, ANA immediately grounded its fleet of 17 Dreamliners and launched an investigation into the cause. At that time in the US, the FAA said that it was looking into the incident.
Half of our media group had reservations to fly out of Tokyo bound for San Jose on the 787 on Wednesday afternoon. However, thanks to the slower winter travel season and quick action on the part of ANA staff, there was enough room on Wednesday's ANA flight to San Francisco to accommodate the group and they all got home safely. I was glad I had already booked my return trip to SFO on an ANA Boeing 777 (instead of the 787 into SJC) for later this week.
Last night, I pondered what all this meant as I sat having a meal in the Park Hyatt's New York Grill & Bar, thinking about Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson in Lost in Translation drinking Suntory whiskey, listening to a "Sausalito"-like chanteuse croon while the Tokyo skyline twinkled 52 stories below.
I had a great night's sleep (almost no jet lag on this trip…maybe due to the 787's new cabin pressurization … or the Park Hyatt's comfy beds?) and awoke to another bombshell: The US Federal Aviation Administration had grounded the 787 until it could determine the cause of the incident.
With sketchy information and investigations underway, it's too early to conclude that the aircraft is fundamentally flawed. But the recent rash of incidents and media hype around them are certain to cause concern…
Here's a list of what is swirling around in my head about this now. Conclusions will come later….
>First, I'm grateful to be safe and sound in a nice hotel in Tokyo, and not stuck at an airport due to a flight cancellation. I'm glad to have the chance to ride on the 787… and equally glad I have a reservation to get back to San Francisco an ANA 777.
>It's tough to speculate on what this means for ANA's new 787 flights between Tokyo and San Jose. The 158-passenger Dreamliner is perfect for a "long, thin" route like Tokyo-San Jose. I think it's unlikely that ANA will substitute another aircraft on the route—such as a Boeing 777 or 767 because they are simply too big—there is not enough demand in the South Bay to keep a 200-300 seat aircraft full. (American Airlines used to have a 777 on the route, but discontinued the flight in 2006.) So if the grounding of the 787 is short term, the outlook for the route should be okay… is it's a long-term affair, the future of the route is cloudy.
>ANA is handling cancellations on a day-to-day basis- for example, I've just learned that Friday's flight between Tokyo and San Jose has been canceled, but no decision has been made for Saturday's flight. On ANA alone, Dreamliner cancellations affect the plans of 4,800 passengers per day, according to a spokesperson.
>The impact of the controversy is likely felt most acutely here in Japan- ANA has a fleet of 17 Dreamliners, most of which are used for domestic flying, so re-accommodating passengers is causing some pain. Japan Airlines has grounded seven 787s. In addition, the lithium ion batteries in question are made in Japan. It's difficult to watch all this come down on the gentle, polite Japanese who feel deeply embarrassed and apologetic about the whole affair.
>The current FAA grounding will affect flights on United's 6 Dreamliners, however, none of them now fly into the Bay Area, so the local impact is minimal. United is the only US carrier now operating the plane.
>For perspective, I think it's important to look at a similar incident regarding the giant Airbus A380 last year. If you recall, serious structural and mechanical issues (cracks in wings and an engine fire) forced Australian authorities to ground the plane until remedies were in place. The grounding was temporary, and the A380 was quickly back in the skies. Hopefully, engineers will be able to find a similar fix for the Dreamliner's lithium-ion batteries, which seem to be the cause of the jet's most severe problems at the moment.
>Even if the 787 gets back in the skies quickly, some business travelers will likely book away from 787 flights out of fear that future groundings or reliability issues could foul their travel plans.
>Regarding how the airlines might get this fixed, Hudson Crossing aviation analyst Henry Harteveldt told The BAT: "It's possible the correction may be a multi-step process — a short-term 'tactical' fix followed by more in-depth corrections, which may be more complex. Short-term, we may see the FAA recommend airlines limit the types of routes where they operate the 787 — for example, flights that last no longer than a certain number of hours, flights that operate only over land (or close to it), or both. Longer term, the FAA may recommend adding a fire suppression system to the battery bays, replacing the lithium-ion batteries, or something else."
>The big question remains: Is this plane truly safe to fly? At this point, no one really knows. It's going to be interesting to watch this pan out.
I'm firmly in the "wait and see" category when it comes to the idea of booking flights on the 787 in the near future. What about you? How do you feel about the 787? Do you trust the airlines, manufacturers and government regulators to keep you safe? Please leave your comments below.
-Chris McGinnis


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Weather: In the Clouds
In the Clouds
Hopefully, all this talk about humidity hasn't put you in a fog—but that's the topic we discuss next. Fog is just a cloud that has touched the ground. It's one of 10 basic cloud types, and if you master those cloud forms, you can tell quite a bit about what the weather is up to just by looking at them. The clouds decorate the sky, and the patterns tell a story.
Cloud Formation
How do the clouds get there? Well, we are experts on humidity now, and it might seem that if the humidity climbs to 100 percent over a portion or slice of the atmosphere, condensation will take place, and clouds will have no choice but to form.
Sounds good, but not so fast. There are some glitches along the way. For one, droplets are small and round. How small? About one ten-thousandth of an inch or less—microscopic. A powerful surface tension exists among the water molecules that form the small curved surfaces. Any vapor that goes into the liquid state must overcome this surface tension. That's not so easy. In fact, the force needed to overcome such tension is simply not available in the atmosphere. Left alone, water vapor would never form cloud droplets. There would never be clouds, there would never be rain, and I would be a pharmacist now like my mother wanted.
Cirrus clouds are thin, wispy, high clouds. Stratus comes from the Latin meaning "layer"; these clouds are flat and stay close to the ground. Cumulus comes from the Latin for "puffy." Those are the fleecy-looking clouds that paint the sky on a pleasant, quiet day. Nimbus comes from the Latin for "rainbearing." Any cloud that delivers rain is a nimbus cloud.
Dirt to the rescue! Or at least small, microscopic particles. Thanks to particles suspended in the air, cloud droplets are able to form. Certain hygroscopic particles, such as salt, attract water vapor. Even when the atmosphere looks crystal clear, these small particles float around us. In a volume that is no larger than an index finger, there are up to 150,000 of these particles, called condensation nuclei. Thanks to them, water vapor is able to overcome that curvature effect, condensation can take place, droplets form, and eventually, we have a rainy day. So many of these particles are present that cloud droplets can form at a relative humidity that is even slightly less than 100 percent. These particles are about one-one hundredth the size of cloud droplets and come from smokestacks, volcanoes, forest fires, and ocean spray. The following figure shows the spectrum of sizes between these tiny nuclei, cloud droplets, and raindrops.
Cloud Classification
The first effort to make some order out of the patterns in the sky occurred in the very early nineteenth century. The French naturalist Lamarck first introduced a system, but shortly after an English chemist, Luke Howard, worked on a scheme that became widely accepted. Howard became known as the "father of British meteorology," and his pioneering work won him all kinds of distinctions, including having a poem written for him by Goethe. In those days, Latin was big, and Howard's system was based on four major cloud types named according to the way they looked. Toward the end of the century, Howard's original system was expanded into 10 principal cloud forms. That classification scheme has remained essentially unchanged for the past 100 years.
The four basic cloud types are cirrus, stratus, cumulus, and nimbus. Cirrus comes from the Latin for "thin," "wispy," or "curl of hair." And that is how cirrus clouds appear from the ground. Sometimes they are called mare's tails. They are high clouds, consisting of ice crystals because they are at elevations of 20,000 feet and higher. At those heights, water droplets freeze into ice crystals. These clouds often tell us that change is on the way. A storm may be approaching, or warmer air could be knocking on the door. Stratus comes from the Latin meaning "layer." These clouds are flat and stay close to the ground. Cumulus comes from the Latin for "puffy." Those are the fleecy-looking clouds that help paint the sky on a pleasant, quiet day. But these clouds are noted for their strong vertical development. They can form towers, and when they do, watch out. The sky can open up into a violent thunderstorm. Nimbus comes from the Latin for "rain-bearing." Any cloud that delivers rain is a nimbus cloud.
These are the four basic cloud types. There are also combinations that show up at different elevations. The classification scheme that so far has been based solely on a cloud's appearance now becomes a little more sophisticated. The types are combined and categorized into groups of high, middle, low clouds, and clouds that extend through all elevations.
Since the late 1950s, clouds have been observed by satellites. Two types of satellites look down on our clouds: POES (Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellites) and GOES (Geostationary Orbiting Environmental Satellites). The POES move around the poles. The GOES provide the pictures for television weather shows. They move around the earth at the same speed that the earth rotates, so they seem to hover over one location above the earth, near the equator at a height of 23,000 miles.
Excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to Weather © 2002 by Mel Goldstein, Ph.D.. All rights reserved including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. Used by arrangement with Alpha Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.


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San Diego, California - March 23, 2017 (Investorideas.com Newswire) Gopher Protocol Inc. (OTCQB:GOPH) ("Gopher" and the "Company"), a development-stage company, which specializes in the development of real-time, heuristic-based – mobile technologies announces the release of a recent podcast interview with Wall Street Analyzer.
Chief Technology Officer, Dr. Danny Rittman discusses the recent news on EDA Software, as well as the Guardian Pet Tracker and Guardian Patch.
Listen to the Podcast in full at http://wallstreetanalyzer.com/2017/03/23/gopher-protocol-otcqbgoph-management-interview/
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About Guardian Pet Tracker
The Guardian Pet Tracker (Sphere Internal name - the "Sphere") system is a derivative technology of Gopher's Guardian Patch technology. The Sphere is designed to provide its users with local tracking capability using a re-chargeable/replaceable battery source. The objective of Gopher's current efforts, which it hopes to achieve, is to deliver for testing in a pre-designated area few mobile units of the Guardian pet devices along with a base station, test results and eventual manufacturing capability for both the mobile and the base unit.
About Guardian Patch
The Guardian Patch (the "Patch"), potentially arriving in consumer markets in 2017, is a unique location technology that works with or without GPS. The Patch is a "stick-on" device that provides its users with the capability to protect and track objects, a loved-one or even a pet, through a mobile application. Download the Patch app, register your patch, and track anything that you own on your mobile device or on our designated website. Register the Patches of your family members and friends to receive alerts in the event of an emergency. Peel the Patch off and the Patch acts as a beacon, sending out a signal and notifying anyone who has registered the user's Patch.
About Gopher Protocol Inc.
Gopher Protocol Inc. (OTCQB: GOPH) ("Gopher" and the "Company") (http://gopherprotocol.com) is a development-stage company developing a real-time, heuristic-based mobile technology. Upon development, the technology will consist of a smart microchip, mobile application software and supporting software that will run on a server. The system contemplates the creation of a global network. Gopher believes this will be the first system that is developed using a human, heuristic-based analysis engine. Since the core of the system will be its advanced microchip technology that will be capable of being installed in any mobile device worldwide, Gopher expects that this will result in an internal, private network between all mobile devices utilizing the microchip by providing mobile technology for computing power enhancement, advanced mobile database management/sharing and other additional mobile features.
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LAS VEGAS -- Authorities say former NFL Pro Bowl linebacker Joey Porter was released from a California jail after paying $70,000 owed to the Hard Rock Casino in Las Vegas.
A spokeswoman with the Kern County jail in Bakersfield said Porter was released Monday.
Prosecutor Samuel Bateman in Las Vegas says Porter was arrested during the weekend in on a theft and bad check complaint filed earlier this year.
Bateman said the 35-year-old Porter paid the amount and was released pending dismissal of the charge. A court date was not immediately set.
The prosecutor says Porter received several IOU markers from the Hard Rock in June.
Porter played 13 seasons for the Pittsburgh Steelers, Miami Dolphins and Arizona Cardinals before retiring in July.
His arrest was first reported by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
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State of the Cat Study
A partnership of TICA & Optimal Selection by Wisdom Health to improve awareness and advance understanding of feline genetics
State of the Cat study, a partnership between Wisdom Health & TICA reached our goal of screening 1,000 cats for genetic disease, traits and genetic heterozygosity. Thank you to all the TICA Members and their cats for participating.
TICA Members still enjoy a 15% discount promotion code for Optimal Selection testing. Use TICAmember2023 when ordering.
Want to keep up to date with current information, be sure to check this space and read TICA's e-newsletter and TICA TREND.
TICA Members get immediate access to well-established genetic tests and a vast array of new genetic insights offered at a significant savings using the Optimal Selection™ Feline Genetic Breeding Analysis test.
The TICA-Wisdom Health partnership demonstrate the crucial value of purposefully-bred cats to better understand diseases with a genetic basis. For the first time, there hard data on the prevalence of these mutations in the feline population of pedigree and non-pedigree cats. This collaboration between scientific researchers and the cat breeding community hopes to provide information and guidance that can be used to reduce the prevalence of certain conditions which, with diligent management over time, could result in the eradication of these negative mutations from the fancy. Because certain conditions found in our beloved cats are also found in people, the study may also yield information that can be translated into improvements for human health. The multitude of data gathered will offer insights for cat enthusiasts, academia, and industry. It will also stimulate new investigations, encourage innovation and refinement of genetic testing platforms, and empower mate selection with empirically-based knowledge.
Genetic screening is voluntary. Optimal Selection panel testing is done on a custom Illumina chip array that will test 10,000 genetic markers across each cat's DNA! Results from this commercial test will be shared with the owner and include:
- Screening your cat for over 40+ diseases
- Testing for 25+ traits
- Determining blood type
- Assessing genetic diversity
This means most of the individual tests breeders might seek are combined into a single cost-effective, comprehensive testing panel! These include HCM, PKD, Pk-def, PRA-b, Agouti, Longhair, Dilute, and Blood Type among others. Thus, the panel offers extensive testing for one single fee! For a complete list, please visit www.Optimal-Selection.com.
Regarding the testing
- Individual and PRIVATE Results: the individual submitting the sample will receive the results, including detailed information on each of the mutations and what is known about it. You control who sees the results. If requested, the Wisdom Health team, including veterinarians and geneticists, is available to help answer questions and provide guidance.
- Breed Prevalence Data: individual disease mutation results will be aggregated by breed to report the prevalence of the mutation in the breed. However, NO ONE will ever know your individual results unless you decide to disclose them.
- Breeder Tool: if you choose, you can leverage the new findings to identify compatible mates by employing a tool that uses the available genetic data to assess predicted diversity scores for the offspring.
- Diversity Testing: this screening panel will analyze 10,000 SNP (single nucleotide polymorphisms) of your cat's DNA. This information will be used to generate diversity scores to help promote health in the feline population.
- Purchase your kit(s) directly from Wisdom Health. Use the code TICAmember2024 to receive a 15% discount on the test.
US & Canada: www.Optimal-Selection.com; Europe: www.MyCatDNA.com - Swab you cat, activate the kit online, and submit the sample
- Await the results, usually 2-3 weeks.
And that's it!
Sample Report here (this owner made their cat's results public)
Visit the Public Cats profile to see many different individual reports here
Want to better navigate the Optimal-Selection.com website? See this video by TICA Board Member Liz Hansen, GL Regional Director & Maine Coon Breed chair.
Other Genetic Tests and Laboratories
Owners and Breeders have choices about what to test for and what laboratories to utilize. Look for members of ISAG, International Society of Animal Genetics. Please note TICA does not officially endorse any laboratory or testing service. In addition to Wisdom Health you may want to consider:
- US: Veterinary Genetics Lab at UC Davis https://www.vgl.ucdavis.edu/services/cat/
- UK: Langford Veterinary Labs https://www.langfordvets.co.uk/diagnostic-laboratories/genetic-diseases-and-cat-breeds
- Australia: https://www.orivet.com/store/feline-disease
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Swimming legend Dawn Fraser has been voted Australia's greatest ever female athlete at an awards ceremony in Canberra.
Fraser pipped athletics great Betty Cuthbert and surfer Layne Beachley for the top gong, which was decided by a combination of public vote, expert input from fellow athletes and research conducted by advocacy group Sports for Women.
The Sportswomen's Ball at Parliament House, sponsored by the Australian government and attended by Sports Minister Kate Lundy, announced the top 100 Australian female athletes of all time.
Fraser won four gold and three silver Olympic medals between 1956 and 1964.
She was also the first of only three swimmers in Olympic history to win individual gold medals for the same event at three successive Olympics, taking out the 100m freestyle each time.
"It really is a great honour and I'm very very proud I can uphold that for women in sport," the self-confessed sports rebel told AAP.
"To think that I have been voted the number one athlete in Australia, I'm extremely proud."
Despite her 1964 Tokyo Olympics controversies, which included being arrested for stealing an Olympic flag and marching during the Opening Ceremony when she was told not to, Fraser said she liked to think of herself as a pioneer in the sport of swimming.
"We set examples for the younger generations to follow," she said.
"Times have changed drastically which has been very good and I would like to think that I was one of those people that changed those rules."
Margaret Court (tennis), Lauren Jackson (basketball), Heather McKay (squash), Rechelle Hawkes (hockey), Shirley Strickland (athletics), Anna Meares (cycling), Cathy Freeman (athletics), Karrie Webb (golf) and Liz Ellis (netball) rounded out the top twelve.


text: How long have you been sitting today? Here's one more reason that you should get up and move around once in a while. A new study in the journal Diabetologia suggests that reducing your sitting time is more important in lowering your risk of diabetes than exercise. This is just the latest in a string of research suggesting that moving around helps your health. But the new results should not replace standard recommendations for exercise, and more research is required to understand the reasons for the findings, said lead study author Joseph Henson. "It looks as if just sitting for long periods of time has a real negative impact upon overall health," Henson said. Why study diabetes A chronic illness, diabetes reflects a problem in the body with the hormone insulin, which regulates blood sugar. The condition happens when the body can't use the insulin that it produces effectively, or when the pancreas doesn't produce enough of the hormone. Henson, of the Diabetes Research Unit at the University of Leicester, wanted to explore this topic because of the increasing prevalence of diabetes worldwide. Nearly 350 million people around the globe have diabetes, according to the World Health Organization, and deaths from diabetes are expected to increase by two-thirds between 2008 and 2030. "The increase in diabetes has been due to the fact that people have generally just gotten larger," Henson said. So as obesity has increased so has the prevalence of diabetes." The trend is obvious in the United States. The number of people with diagnosed diabetes went from 5.6 million to 20.9 million from 1980 to 2010, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This disease is also a huge driver of health care costs in the U.S., according to the American Diabetes Association. Methods This study looked specifically at people at risk of type II diabetes in the United Kingdom. Participants came from two diabetes prevention programs. Researchers put accelerometers on 878 patients to see how much they moved or didn't move, monitoring when they took breaks from sitting down. They wore these devices on their hips for at least seven consecutive days, during waking hours, the study said. Results The study found that sedentary time was associated with worse outcomes in "bad" HDL cholesterol, 2 h glucose and triacylglycerol, which are all indicators of metabolic and cardiovascular health. Perhaps surprisingly, time spent sitting - not time spent exercising - was the factor most strongly associated with health outcomes examined in the study. Why? Henson said there may be a specific enzyme that responds differently when people are sitting, compared to when they exercise, but more research is needed. Data from the study suggests that reducing time sitting by 90 minutes during the course of the day significantly lowers the risk of diabetes, Henson said. Limitations This was not a controlled study, meaning the study authors did not deliberately prescribe a group a certain amount of physical activity and compare outcomes with another group who sat the whole time. A rigorous experimental design is necessary to more conclusively draw connections between behaviors and disease risk. Recommendations As has been demonstrated in other studies, taking breaks from sitting appears to be associated with better health indicators. The participants in this study were already at risk for diabetes, so in a person who does not have a predetermined risk, "trying to move for 5 minutes every hour seems right," Henson said. Source


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Priya Ranjan Sahu, Hindustan Times Gobindpur, Odisha, June 23, 2013
It's been an eight-year-long uneven battle between betel vines and a steel plant. And steel hasn't won yet.
For, eight villages in coastal Odisha's Dhinkia, Nuagaon and Gadakujanga gram panchayats in Jagatsingpur district, about 150 km east of state capital Bhubaneswar, have put up a stiff resistance against South Korean steel major Posco's proposed Rs.52,000-crore project.
The reason: It will take away their traditional source of income — betel vines.
Posco signed a deal with the state government for acquiring 4,004 acres (one acre=43,560 square feet) for the project. But the site of the project — backed by the single-largest foreign investment in India — virtually has nothing except some prefabricated site offices in a hurriedly fenced-off piece of vacant land.
The telltale signs of the battle are strewn everywhere in the area earmarked for the project — felled trees, destroyed betel vines and hostile villagers, who have been fighting with the state to protect their vines.
Popular resistance and environmental clearance have made it difficult for the state to push through the 12-million-tonnes a year green-field project, which should have gone on stream by 2011.
Of the 4,004 acres, about 3,000 acres is forestland. And more than 5,000 betel vines dot the sandy landscape in this forestland, each generating an average assured income of R20,000 a month.
Two years ago, the administration had to suspend land acquisition after hundreds of women and children blocked the entry point to the vines near the Gobindpur-Nuagaon border in scorching summer.
In February this year, the administration took a step forward by resuming the process in Gobindpur. Though the state considers dismantling about 300 betel vines in three months to be some success, the drive seems to have lost steam by the end of May.
"They are coming like thieves in the wee hours and trying to dismantle vines before we wake up and protest. We have re-erected several vines dismantled by them," said villager Tuna Baral.
But the administration is being careful. "Land acquisition continues peacefully. We are trying to convince people to part with their vines and accept compensation," SK Mallick, collector of Jagatsinghpur, told HT.
The project has split the village community, with a group called the United Action Committee (UAC) — having some influence in Nuagaon — supporting Posco. But that has not helped matters. Today, Nuagaon is a picture of despair, with villagers having exhausted their compensation and are left with no means to sustain themselves.
Kabindra Rout, a betel farmer, said, "The administration dismantled my betel vine in 2011 and I got a compensation of R2.28 lakh. But now I am jobless."
Many who earlier used to own betel vines and could employ others have now been reduced to daily wage-earners in the vines in Dhinkia, the stronghold of the anti-Posco movement, which the police have not been able to enter during the past eight years.
On June 7, after meeting chief minister Naveen Patnaik, Posco India chairman and managing director Young-Won Yoon said, "We are hopeful the land will be handed over to us soon."
But 'soon' may prove to be far off — or even a delusion — as the 20,000-odd residents of the eight villages are showing no signs of retreating from their betel vines.
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- PRESS RELEASE – Fact Finding Report- Scrap Posco Project (kractivist.wordpress.com)
- 'Will fight POSCO till last breath' (kractivist.wordpress.com)
- Tension mounts in Posco project area as villagers oppose work (kractivist.wordpress.com)
- Green tribunal halts land acquisition for POSCO (kractivist.wordpress.com)
- Stop cutting trees for Posco plant: tribunal (kractivist.wordpress.com)


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LOS ANGELES – Eric Wise scored 12 points and USC held off a furious rally by Arizona State, defeating the Sun Devils 57-56 on Saturday.
Bryon Wesley added 11 points and J.T. Terrell had 10 for the Trojans (14-15, 9-7 Pac-12).
Jahii Carson scored 23 points for Arizona State (20-10, 9-8), which lost its third in a row.
The Sun Devils pulled within 55-52 on Chris Colvin's basket with 53 seconds left. USC then missed a shot at the end of the shot clock, but Wise got the rebound, was fouled and made two free throws to put USC up 57-52.
Carson scored inside and, after a USC turnover on the inbounds pass, hit another bucket that made it 57-56 with 5 seconds left.
Wise was fouled on the ensuing inbounds pass and missed the front end of the one-and-one free throw, but Carson's 35-footer at the buzzer was off target.


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Ducati isn't the only Italian manufacturer coming out with a new motorcycle for 2012, as we get our first look at the 2012 MV Agusta F4 RR Corsacorta. Making 198hp (18hp over your standard F4), the new MV features a short-stroke "Corsacorta" motor. We can expect to see the 2012 MV Agusta F4 RR Corsacorta hit dealers this summer, with a price tag of somewhere in the neighborhood of $30,000+.
MV Agusta is noticeably ramping up its product line offering now that it is back in the hands of the Castiglioni family. Also due out in 2012 is the all new MV Agusta F3, and its naked sibling the MV Agusta Brutale 675 B3. Expect an unveiling of those bikes at EICMA in November; and in the meantime, checkout the video of the new F4 in the video out after the jump.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. – NASA is welcoming six students from the University at Buffalo to test how much more effective a pump could be if it used electricity instead of mechanical parts in the low-gravity conditions of space travel.
The researchers believe that the experiments are the first to test the effectiveness of electrokinetic micropumps in microgravity.
"I'm proud that my students were selected to perform our experiments at the NASA facilities," says UB Chemistry Professor Luis Colón, PhD, who supervised the micropump research for two years. "It is rewarding to see how much they have matured, and how much potential has been unleashed."
After heading to Houston on July 11, the research team will test their pump on a plane that will fly 30 parabolic maneuvers over the Gulf of Mexico, providing about 18 seconds of microgravity conditions as the plane starts to nose over the top of the parabola to descend toward Earth.
The four-inch electrokinetic micropump the team designed moves liquid through a process called electro-osmosis, which involves applying a voltage across a porous disk.
Unlike the costly and heavy mechanical pumps currently employed by NASA, an electrokinetic micropump has no moving parts, which makes it simpler and lighter. Any reduction in weight on space vehicles means less money NASA has to spend on fuel to power them out of orbit.
Aside from lowering costs, the pump is compatible with a variety of liquids. It could recycle the space vehicle's drinking water or drive ammonia solutions to fuel cells for power.
Houston is only the first step for the team of UB students.
If successful, NASA may retest their pump in zero gravity at the International Space Station. And if all goes well there, NASA may decide to incorporate it into the agency's space vehicles.
The experiments are a part of the Reduced Gravity Education Flight Program at NASA's Microgravity University. Every summer the program invites 12 teams of students from across the nation to propose, design, assemble, fly and evaluate a reduced gravity experiment of their choice. The teams travel to Houston, Texas to spend 10 days conducting their experiments at the Johnson Space Center.
The UB team heading to NASA includes:
Salem, a Syracuse native who has aspired to be an engineer like her father since she was 12 years old, has moved one step closer to fulfilling her dream through this opportunity.
"I'm excited," says Salem. "Not many people can say their work flew on a NASA plane. This opportunity makes me want to stay involved in research and work towards my PhD."
Salem and Guttery, the undergraduate leaders on their research team, will take a week off from internships at Sikorsky Aircraft, a military and commercial helicopter manufacturer based out of Stratford, Conn., to ready the pump for its tests on the reduced gravity plane.
"Their achievements will serve to attract other talented students to our programs, and to bring additional national recognition to UB," says Colón.
Marcene Robinson is a former staff writer in University Communications. To contact UB's media relations staff, email firstname.lastname@example.com or visit our list of current university media contacts.


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L.A. Dodgers Wife - It's Expensive to Be Me
Now we know why the L.A. Dodgers divorce case between Frank and Jamie McCourt is so high-stakes ... it costs a bundle to be them.
Jamie submitted an expense declaration with the court in her quest for $988,845. Here are some of her MONTHLY expenses:
- Expenses for Holmby Hills home - $202,715
- Expenses for L.A. home - $9,007
- Expenses for Malibu home - $151,054
- Expenses for other Malibu home - $88,106
- Expenses for Cape Cod house - $93,279
- Expenses for Willowbend house (we don't even know where that is) - $5,048
- Expenses for Vail house - $7,784
- Expenses for Cabo house - $2,530
In all, the homes cost her $568,829 a month. Her total nut is almost twice that. But in her declaration, Jamie says she was only pulling in $166,667 a month from the Dodgers. Someone missed their home ec classes!


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I promised to show how spam_system() is called from Python programs. First, we need to list its name and address in a ``method table'':
static PyMethodDef SpamMethods[] = { ... {"system", spam_system, METH_VARARGS, "Execute a shell command."}, ... {NULL, NULL, 0, NULL} /* Sentinel */ };
Note the third entry ("METH_VARARGS"). This is a flag telling
the interpreter the calling convention to be used for the C
function. It should normally always be "METH_VARARGS" or
"METH_VARARGS | METH_KEYWORDS"; a value of 0
means that an
obsolete variant of PyArg_ParseTuple() is used.
When using only "METH_VARARGS", the function should expect the Python-level parameters to be passed in as a tuple acceptable for parsing via PyArg_ParseTuple(); more information on this function is provided below.
The METH_KEYWORDS bit may be set in the third field if keyword arguments should be passed to the function. In this case, the C function should accept a third "PyObject *" parameter which will be a dictionary of keywords. Use PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords() to parse the arguments to such a function.
The method table must be passed to the interpreter in the module's initialization function. The initialization function must be named initname(), where name is the name of the module, and should be the only non-static item defined in the module file:
void initspam(void) { (void) Py_InitModule("spam", SpamMethods); }
Note that for C++, this method must be declared extern "C"
When the Python program imports module spam for the first
time, initspam() is called. (See below for comments about
embedding Python.) It calls
Py_InitModule(), which creates a ``module object'' (which
is inserted in the dictionary sys.modules
under the key
), and inserts built-in function objects into the newly
created module based upon the table (an array of PyMethodDef
structures) that was passed as its second argument.
Py_InitModule() returns a pointer to the module object
that it creates (which is unused here). It aborts with a fatal error
if the module could not be initialized satisfactorily, so the caller
doesn't need to check for errors.
When embedding Python, the initspam() function is not called automatically unless there's an entry in the _PyImport_Inittab table. The easiest way to handle this is to statically initialize your statically-linked modules by directly calling initspam() after the call to Py_Initialize() or PyMac_Initialize():
int main(int argc, char **argv) { /* Pass argv[0] to the Python interpreter */ Py_SetProgramName(argv[0]); /* Initialize the Python interpreter. Required. */ Py_Initialize(); /* Add a static module */ initspam();
An example may be found in the file Demo/embed/demo.c in the Python source distribution.
Removing entries from sys.modules
or importing
compiled modules into multiple interpreters within a process (or
following a fork() without an intervening
exec()) can create problems for some extension modules.
Extension module authors should exercise caution when initializing
internal data structures.
Note also that the reload() function can be used with
extension modules, and will call the module initialization function
(initspam() in the example), but will not load the module
again if it was loaded from a dynamically loadable object file
(.so on Unix, .dll on Windows).
A more substantial example module is included in the Python source distribution as Modules/xxmodule.c. This file may be used as a template or simply read as an example. The modulator.py script included in the source distribution or Windows install provides a simple graphical user interface for declaring the functions and objects which a module should implement, and can generate a template which can be filled in. The script lives in the Tools/modulator/ directory; see the README file there for more information.
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The discussion had been precipitated by perhaps the most long-awaited and over-hyped set-piece political speech of recent times – Prime Minister David Cameron's planned address on Britain's relationship with Europe.
The consensus was that, while such speeches still had their
place, it helped if the politician concerned had something new and original to
say – as for instance Margaret Thatcher did in her famous Bruges speech of 1988
when she set her face against a federal Europe.
In that respect, perhaps it was a good thing that Mr
Cameron's proposed speech ended up being postponed, given the expectation among
commentators that it would say little to appease his increasingly Eurosceptic
But if Bruges was, for those on the right of politics, the setting
for the seminal political speech of modern times, those of a Labour disposition
tend to look to another town beginning with B – namely Bournemouth.
For that was where, in 1985, Neil Kinnock delivered the
Labour conference address subsequently credited with launching the party on the
long road to recovery after the wilderness years of the early 1980s.
The historical significance of the speech was that it marked
the start of a fightback by Labour modernisers against a hard left faction
which had rendered the party unelectable.
This process of internal renewal would eventually lead to
the creation of New Labour and, electorally speaking at any rate, the most
successful period in the party's history.
But in an era in which a Conservative-led government is once
again imposing spending cutbacks on Labour-run councils, could Mr Kinnock's
great speech have a new relevance for today?
What he was railing against in Bournemouth was the kind of
gesture politics typified, not just by Militant-controlled Liverpool City Council,
but by a host of other Labour authorities of the era who used budget cuts as a
means of ratcheting up political pressure on the government.
The key sentence in the speech was Mr Kinnock's warning –
delivered in the face of a heckling Derek Hatton – that "you can't play
politics with people's jobs, or with people's homes, or with people's
And more than a quarter of a century on, it's people's
services that are once again at stake in Newcastle, as the city council decides
how to implement what it claims are the £90m worth of savings demanded by the
Con-Lib coalition at Westminster.
Council leader Nick Forbes' decision to target some of the
cutbacks at libraries and the arts has caused deep and bitter controversy in
the region, but is actually nothing new in the annals of Labour local
Whether consciously or otherwise, he has taken a leaf out of
the book of David Bookbinder, the left-wing firebrand who led Derbyshire County
Council at the same time as Mr Hatton was running Liverpool.
Faced with a similar set of cutbacks in the 1980s, Mr
Bookbinder decided to take the axe to a series of libraries in Tory-voting
middle-class areas as well as scrapping school music tuition.
But just as Derbyshire's voters saw through his attempts to
blame the government for the sorry situation, so Newcastle's are increasingly
beginning to question who is really to blame for the present-day cutbacks.
Save Newcastle Libraries campaigner Lee Hall has made clear
his own view on the matter, accusing Councillor Forbes in a speech last week of
wanting to "make a name for himself" and wanting "a platform to rail at the
"Instead of trying to protect our libraries, our enormously
successful arts organisations, Forbes, for his own political aggrandisement, is
trying to cut as much as possible," he said.
David Bookbinder's unique brand of showmanship made
Derbyshire a great place to be a local government reporter in the 1980s, but
ultimately his attempts to play politics with people's services did Labour no favours
in the county.
Perhaps Councillor Forbes, too, should now take heed of Mr
Kinnock's wise words of warning.


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I'm reblogging a post in full by an esteemed fellow Canuck, George Waye, who has asked for help in spreading the word on this laudable cause.
I'd like you to meet Derek Forgie. I've known Derek for almost twenty years- we were both involved in the arts community here in North Bay for many years before Derek moved down to Toronto in search of fame and fortune. Well, mostly fame.
Derek is the most motivated guy I know. When he wants to do something, he just does it. When he moved to Toronto he started HSSE, Heterosexuals for Same Sex Equality, a group whose mission statement is to advocate for LGBT issues from a heterosexual angle- and to get the message out that human rights are everyone's rights.
HSSE has already organized a successful campaign called "Straight Not Narrow"- selling T-shirts and organizing community involvement including participation in the Pride Parade in Toronto. The T-shirt is awesome and sends a clear and catchy message while raising money for a great cause. I'm not here to sell you a T-shirt though, don't worry.
The new HSSE project is centered around an ad campaign that shows real couples holding a sign that reads "Gay marriage doesn't threaten our marriage". Derek asked me if I could help by getting a picture of me and Misty holding a sign that carried the message- and I said I could do better than that.
I'm hoping that I can get as many of the married (or engaged) readers to get Derek a photo of them holding up this sign. I'm also trying to pull some strings at some of the other blogs I frequent. The sign could be hand written, or printed off using a computer- and it doesn't have to be to same font as the one you see above. If you like, you could add the facebook address that is written on the sign as well. Each photo should be uploaded to facebook.com/TheHSSE but if you love humans but hate social networks, feel free to e-mail the picture to me and I will forward it to Derek. My e-mail is my first name and last name (waye) all one word , ampersat, consultant, period, com. The idea is to collect as many as possible before Valentines Day.
As part of the campaign, for the month of February, the wonderfully talented staff at "Who Do You Love? Photography" in Toronto are very generously offering FREE professional couples portraits like the one above. If you'd like to book your session (or if you have any questions) email: [email protected]
So to make this easy for all of you:
- Make a sign that says "Gay marriage doesn't threaten our marriage" feel free to add "facebook.com/TheHSSE"
- Take a picture of you and your husband/wife (and kids?) holding the sign.
- Go to facebook.com/TheHSSE and upload the photo to their wall. Alternately, you can e-mail the picture to me (my first and last name,ampersat,consultant, period, com) If you put "George sent me" and I get twenty photos……
- I will raffle off the free "Straight Not Narrow" T-shirts to the people who participate-your name will be entered so long as your picture is posted by Noon on February 14th.
So get to it. Be a part of something meaningful.
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I need to make (actually re-creating) a diagram for a repeating process consisting of 5 steps.
Here's how it might look with two arrows:
I need to do basically the same thing with 5 arrows, different colors, and the arrowheads not sticking out... essentially a donut shape.
The arrows also contain text, but that's not a big deal since I can flatten each arrow if the solution involves handling them as separate objects.
I've already tried making the arrows in a straight line and making an art brush, but AI gives me an error saying "The selected artwork contains an element that cannot be made into an art brush." ??? I removed the text just to make sure that wasn't it, but the error still happened.
I also tried making a donut from 2 circles, making compound path, and using the knife to divide into sections... made a nightmare mess out of that. It's nearly impossible to cut a straight line that isn't exactly horizontal, perpendicular, or the exact in between of those.
It looks so simple! Am I just being obtuse? :p


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Officers and new recruits of the British Royal Gurkha Regiment pose for their official photograph at their army camp at Pokhara, Nepal after recently being recruited into the regiment after a gruelling series of tests to eliminate the weaker and less able candidates, before the 160 lucky candidates travel to the UK for basic training. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. Nepal has been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857..
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